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N ASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The ...
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...
After a two-year closure prompted by safety concerns and conservation efforts, the Sterkfontein Caves—one of South Africa’s ...
The fossil bones were found in South Africa ... including the famous ‘Lucy’ (Australopithecus afarensis, about 3.2 million years old) and ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis, about 90,000 ...
belongs to a branch of the hominin tree known as Australopithecus—Latin for "southern ape." A life-sized osteological reproduction of the fossil is now on display, alongside a temporary exhibit ...
Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was ...
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...
Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe ...